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I was a profoundly gifted kid - taught myself to read just before I turned 2, was reading lord of the rings and the shannara books at 5, deathly bored in public

I was a profoundly gifted kid - taught myself to read just before I turned 2, was reading lord of the rings and the shannara books at 5, deathly bored in public school because my parents couldn't afford private. To claim that gifted children cannot be distinguished from their peers at a very young age is flat out wrong.

turtlebits 1y ago
Who is claiming that? This sounds totally reasonable - for younger kids I believe socialization and play is way important than academics.
- aappleby 1y ago
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erulabs 1y ago
No 20 month old “teaches themselves to read”. I’m sure youre gifted and it’s obviously insane to join this discussion period (who am I to change your self identity) but today has been a day full of allowing too many delusional people to be delusional.
- aappleby 1y ago
  You certainly don't have to believe me, but that's what happened according to my mother. My mother was busy with my twin sister and didn't have time to read to me, so I would take all the Berenstain Bears books and sit down on the couch and try to sound them out. After a few weeks of that I told my mother that I didn't need her help because I could read now. She didn't believe me and had me read some other children's books - turns out I could.
bxsioshc 1y ago
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Jensson 1y ago
The hard part is making bureaucrats identify gifted kids, not to identify them yourself. To a bureaucrat a kid that learned a lot on his own and a kid that had a lot of personal mentors to help them learn are the same thing, so both get put in gifted class, but out of those the kid that already is getting help doesn't need more that kid is already getting what he needs. But it probably isn't bad to put smart kids together with mentored kids, matching smart with rich is a good way to help both sides.

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I was a profoundly gifted kid - taught myself to read just before I turned 2, was reading lord of the rings and the shannara books at 5, deathly bored in public

by aappleby 1y ago

turtlebits 1y ago
Who is claiming that? This sounds totally reasonable - for younger kids I believe socialization and play is way important than academics.
- aappleby 1y ago
  Other people in this thread
erulabs 1y ago
No 20 month old “teaches themselves to read”. I’m sure youre gifted and it’s obviously insane to join this discussion period (who am I to change your self identity) but today has been a day full of allowing too many delusional people to be delusional.
- aappleby 1y ago
  You certainly don't have to believe me, but that's what happened according to my mother. My mother was busy with my twin sister and didn't have time to read to me, so I would take all the Berenstain Bears books and sit down on the couch and try to sound them out. After a few weeks of that I told my mother that I didn't need her help because I could read now. She didn't believe me and had me read some other children's books - turns out I could.
bxsioshc 1y ago
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Jensson 1y ago
The hard part is making bureaucrats identify gifted kids, not to identify them yourself. To a bureaucrat a kid that learned a lot on his own and a kid that had a lot of personal mentors to help them learn are the same thing, so both get put in gifted class, but out of those the kid that already is getting help doesn't need more that kid is already getting what he needs. But it probably isn't bad to put smart kids together with mentored kids, matching smart with rich is a good way to help both sides.